The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleHurd and Houghton, 1870 - 568 Seiten |
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... bulls walked away to give the alarm , charge up the nearest practi- cable gulch that entered the bluff , getting to the top as quickly as possible . There each of us was to select his own bull out of the herd , and ride him down till he ...
... bulls walked away to give the alarm , charge up the nearest practi- cable gulch that entered the bluff , getting to the top as quickly as possible . There each of us was to select his own bull out of the herd , and ride him down till he ...
Seite 64
... bulls kept on tolerably even ground where we could follow them , every minute brought us fresh advantage . If they ... bull nearest me , each of the other horsemen picked his quarry , and for ten minutes more I knew nothing , in the ...
... bulls kept on tolerably even ground where we could follow them , every minute brought us fresh advantage . If they ... bull nearest me , each of the other horsemen picked his quarry , and for ten minutes more I knew nothing , in the ...
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... bull , bear a charmed life to the tyro in saddle - shooting . My horse began to be fearfully winded , this was his first time out during the season ; he was a generous loan ; and though the buffalo was rapidly tiring , I desisted from ...
... bull , bear a charmed life to the tyro in saddle - shooting . My horse began to be fearfully winded , this was his first time out during the season ; he was a generous loan ; and though the buffalo was rapidly tiring , I desisted from ...
Seite 66
... bull stretched dead as a smelt on a high grassy knoll where he had fallen with one unerring shot , right through the heart . Through the right portion of the heart , it is necessary to add ; for I felt a little less ashamed of myself on ...
... bull stretched dead as a smelt on a high grassy knoll where he had fallen with one unerring shot , right through the heart . Through the right portion of the heart , it is necessary to add ; for I felt a little less ashamed of myself on ...
Seite 67
... bull as ever ran the Plains , stopped him with a series of shots from a Colt's army revolver , and was holding him at bay in a grassy basin , for our artist's especial behoof . He , on his part , did not need three words to show him his ...
... bull as ever ran the Plains , stopped him with a series of shots from a Colt's army revolver , and was holding him at bay in a grassy basin , for our artist's especial behoof . He , on his part , did not need three words to show him his ...
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